E. L. Doctorow
(1931-2015) Novelist. E. L. Doctorow was born in the Bronx, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
County: Suffolk
Jean-Claude Baker
(1943-2015) Author. Jean-Claude Baker was born in Dijon, France, and died in East Hampton, New York.
Antje Katcher
(1948-2014) Poet. Antje Katcher was born in Kiel, Germany. She moved from Germany to New York in 1969.
Martin Gottfried
(1933-2014) Critic, author. Martin Gottfried was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Peter Matthiessen
(1927-2014) Writer. Peter Matthiessen was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Sagaponack, New York.
Henry Geldzahler
(1935-1994) Critic. Henry Geldzahler was born in Antwerp, Belgium, and died in Southampton, Long Island, New York.
Pierre Franey
(1921-1996) Author. Pierre Franey was born in Tonnerre, France, and died in Southampton, England. He was a food columnist and cookbook author.
Robert Farrar Capon
(1925-2013) Writer. Robert F. Capon was born in Queens, New York, and died in Greenport, New York.
Diana Chang
(1924-2009) Novelist, poet. Diana Chang was born in New York and died in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. She was married to David Herrmann. She was the winner of a Fulbright Award and a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, and believed to be the first American born Asiatic woman to publish a novel.
Kennett Love
(1924-2013) Writer. Kennett Love was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and died in Southampton, New York. He was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.